Blanche Stanley Quotes

Notes clearly reveals that the rudeness of Stanley to Blanche. Stanley told to Stella what he knows about Blanche. She fired from her teaching job because of her affair with a student. The story is true, but he didn’t investigate the reason why she was like that. Even though Stella told him Blanche has the plan to marry Mitch, he didn’t stop to tell to Mitch about Blanch.

Stanley is hosting a poker game in the kitchen with all of his guy friends, and Stella and her sister Blanche return later that night to find Stanley drunk and still playing cards at two thirty AM. Stella asks Stanley to call it quits; however instead of responding he chooses to slap her thigh. Their communication is extremely physical and violent, and instead of telling Stanley to stop she turns to Blanche and states, “It makes me so mad when he does that in front of people”(50). Stella is too afraid to confront Stanley about her feelings, so instead she tells Blanche. Later that night, Stanley goes into a violent rage after drinking too much, and becomes increasingly irate when Blanche turns on the radio.

It is made more evident in scene seven when Stella tells Stanley, “Lately you been doing all you can think of to rub her the wrong way, Stanley, and Blanche is sensitive and you’ve got to realize that Blanche and I grew up under very different circumstances than you did” (Williams 118). During this scene Stella has to inform Stanley of his doings, thus showing how he may not comprehend her feelings and the effects of his actions. Stanley admits to telling Mitch about Blanche's past in this scene, which shows how he neglects the feelings of Blanche considering he went so far to destroy

Stanley started spreading rumors all around telling people to stay away from blanche and how she sleeps with everyone. Then it got to the point where everyone though that blanche was crazy so stanley decided to rape her,she even tried to tell her sister stella but she wouldn't believe her,in the end she was sent to a mental hospital by stanley and stella. The reason why i

Blanche has gone against everything that Stanley has worked for; she thinks she can lie to the people in her life, she adds a style of personality that Stanley has been offended by, and she pushes his limits with music, lighting, and her clothes. Blanche manages to challenge him by doing all these things. Not only does Blanche challenge him, she has moved into his life unexpectedly, drank his liquor, and continues to destroy his way of life.

Stanley is a character in this play, whose perspective is clearly reality based. Since Blanche’s outlook on life is fantasy based, there is a lot of hostility between the two characters. Stanley is the one that always exposes the lies that Blanche is always hiding behind. He is constantly trying to get her to accept his perspective. When she finally begins to understand him, it’s too late. With such a huge change, she loses her mental state. Her personal beliefs get interchanged between fantasy and reality, to such an extent, that it seems as if she no longer realizes what is true or what is malign.

The end of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is filled with turmoil, as Blanche is being taken away by a doctor while Stanley and his friends are playing poker. The main cause of this chaos is due to the fact that Stanley raped Blanche in the scene before, however Stella chooses not to believe her sister. Stella states, “I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley” (Williams 165), showing that Stella made her choice between her sister and her husband, a long anticipated moment since the beginning of the play. It was always known that Stella would choose Stanley, and always will choose him, because he is the man she loves and the one she chose to marry. However, despite the fact that this was seemingly the right choice to make, especially since Stella

This was one of Blanche’s last interactions with Stanley before being sent away to a mental institution. People did not believe her. When she reported the rape, her own sister, Stella took Stanley’s word over hers in an attempt to protect Stella’s own future with Stanley. Bad things can happen to good people; in this case, Stanley raped Blanche and she is the one who ends up being punished while Stanley goes on with his life without repercussion. Second, Stanley acts with no regard for his pregnant wife in the hospital.

Throughout Blanche's stay at his house, he feels that she has drunk his liquor, eaten his food, used his house, but still has belittled him and has opposed him. Thus, he must sit idly while watching his marriage and home being torn apart. Stanley’s retaliation is slow but calculated, beginning to compile information about Blanche's past life he must present her past life to his wife so that she can determine who is the superior person. He feels that having proved how degenerate Blanche actually is, he is now justified

It was not just her self that put her in the lime light of being a victim; it is also her new change of environment and people. Stanley is Stella's husband; he is described to be very masculine and aware of his sexual magnetism. “Strongly, compactly built”. He is mostly at ease with people however, if they lack loyalty and affection to him, he will bully them. Especially women, as he believes them just to be easy conflict. It is seen in scene 3 that Stanley has little respect for women. “I said to hush up!” This is addressed to his wife who is seen emotionless and impassive in this play. As for Blanche how is fussy and at edge, she would be very effected by the crude attitude that Stanley presents and so tries to hysterical take Stella away from her husband. Stanley does not forget of this act of interference and makes him all the more determined to be rid of Stella’s “charity case”. The real reason for Stanley’s bulling is that Blanche immediately received all Stella’s attention. “How about my supper huh? I’m not going to no Galatorires’ for supper” This made Stella dominant in power over Stanley and Blanche, something Stanley was not used to. “I put you a cold plate on ice”.

Although there is nothing wrong with Stella offering her sister a help and let Blanche stays in her place, but the biggest missing component, in this case, is the cause a huge embarrassment, that is Stanley. Stanley is Stella’s husband, they live together with peace and entertainment so far; nevertheless, the involvement of a third person would interrupt or even shatter the situation, and this person is Blanche. Stanley represents the new rising Americans, and we can envision him as urban-hunkey. His lifestyle is full of manhood; he goes to bowling, loves poker party, and we gain the picture of him as an aggressive, dominant and very sexual person. To satisfy Stanley is quite simple, first, his sexual desire would override his other senses, which means his sexual relationship with his wife is extremely important to him; second, Stanley enjoys maintaining stereotypical gender roles in his home and being respect as the head of the household. After Blanche’s visit, both of his old habits are being disturbed because Blanche takes herself as someone who’s more superior which goes against his gender role and she sleeps right across them with only a thin layer of the barrier which also stops his lovely night party with his wife. These reasons caused Stanley being so unsympathetic to the way Stella treats Blanche, which furthermore

This male domination is emphasised with the use of the different games at key moments in the play, all involving the men and intentionally excluding the women. In the first scene the men go bowling, while the women run behind and watch, this establishes the role of each sex in the society in which they live. When Blanche asks to join in and “kibitz” in the first game of poker, she is told by Stanley, in no uncertain terms, that “[She] could not”. The game of poker also acts as a metaphor, in the first game, when Blanche has just arrived and is beginning to threaten Stanley and Stella’s marriage, Stanley is losing the game. Stella begins to

Similar to Stanley, Blanche also faces a power struggle. Her ultimate downfall is a result of Stanley’s cruelty and lack of understanding for human fragility. Comments about Stanley’s ‘animal habits’ and ‘sub-human’ nature act as the agent of Blanche’s downfall. Stanley cannot deal with her mocking him in his own home and is fed up with her lies. During the final scenes his

Stanley overhears these comments as they are ‘unaware of his presence’ (S4:pg.164*; and wants to dispose of Blanche to protect his marriage as Blanche has a hysterical determination to urge Stella to leave Stanley. Stanley refuses to accept Blanches’ conduct as she had no right to intervene and arbitrate as a guest in Stanley’s home supporting the idea that Stanley was preparing her downfall all along.

Ever since Blanches husband has died she has tried using other men to make her desires be fulfilled. When discovering Stanley she tries to get him to be interested in her. Stanley had Blanche tricked into thinking he actually loved her so one night he showed her. Unfortunately, Blanche is raped by Stanley. “I always did say that men are callous things with no feelings, but this does beat anything. Making pigs of ourselves...” (Williams 164). Stanley took advantage of her because he figured what would one more matter. Ever since her husband died she has been with many men so it came to a shock when Stanley did that to her. After being raped, Blanche is now unable to deal with herself even more than she was before. “William’s play by introducing symbolic characters, including Blanche’s young husband Allan Grey, and by using flashbacks. Virginia Johnson was Blanche; Lowell Smith was Stanley;...” (Kolin 162). With everything Blanche has gone through with her widowed husband, it would become more obvious to secure her life. Even though Blanche is feeling hopeless when it comes to men, she gave herself up too easily. Stanley came into Blanche’s life and had her wrapped around his finger. When Blanche began to trust him and open up that is when all bad broke loose. Stanley took advantage of Blanche and now left her feeling more hopeless than she was